In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus said 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay “not one cent of tax”. Is that right?
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The ATO system crash was unusual, but it was handled as well as could be expected.
Attorney-General George Brandis has declined to say whether he told the then-solicitor-general, Justin Gleeson, not to run a particular argument in a High Court case.
Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
Keeping public information about companies locked up behind paywalls and maintained by private interests is not in the public interest.
Australian companies could fall foul of the same state aid rules being applied to Apple to crack down on tax avoidance.
Australia is missing out on revenue from some gas projects because the petroleum resource rent tax doesn’t apply.
The ATO’s data dump of how much tax was paid by largest private companies raising more questions than it answers.
International investors will have to comply with new rules designed to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies.
A recent report from think tank Per Capita highlighted increasing concern over inequality in Australia’s taxation system, particularly whether high income earners are paying their fair share of tax. Despite…
Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSFs) are the fastest growing sector of the superannuation industry, spiking by 33% between 2008 and 2012, putting them in the sights of both the super industry and…
The Australian Taxation Office continues its campaign to track down the offshore bank accounts of wealthy Australians, amid a global effort to improve tax transparency. One option the ATO has in its kit…
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has launched a fierce attack on the Australian Taxation Office, accusing it of having had “an insular and inward looking culture” for too long and raising the spectre of possibly…
In January 2013, Mr Chris Jordan AO starts as Federal Commissioner of Taxation in charge of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). He follows Mr Michael D’Ascenzo AO, who was not reappointed after his seven-year…
There is almost unanimous agreement among mainstream economists, tax experts, Treasury, business and even politicians (albeit very quietly) that the Goods and Services Tax will have to be increased and…
It was March last year when I sat down in the chaotic New York office of a leading international tax attorney to conduct an interview for a book I was writing on the campaign against tax havens. But rather…
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Taxation Law, Adelaide University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Senior Industry Fellow - Taxation and Director of the UTAS Tax Clinic, University of Tasmania
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